Quotes About Doubt

Don't put my faith in nobody, not even a scientist.

I was about 21 when I read that [Mere Christianity], and my faith was really being shaken during those days. Its a great, classic book.

I have no faith, very little hope, and as much charity as I can afford.

The most satisfying and ecstatic faith is almost purely agnostic. It trusts absolutely without professing to know at all.

I remember that the priest finally said to me, 'You wouldn't like to have a religion that makes things easy for you.' Now I know that both faith and intellect are components of religious belief.

All that has been done to weaken the foundation of an implicit faith in the Bible, as a whole, has been at the expense of the sense of religious obligation, and at the cost of human happiness.

Faith makes blessed. Consequently it lies.

Doubt works deep within you like a disease or, even more effectively, like a faith.

Whatever solace the Christian faith could give was balanced by the anxiety it generated.

In principle I'm an atheist, although in fact I have a lot of faith

My religious faith remains in possession of the field only after prolonged civil war with my naturally skeptical mind.

My feeling is that I think writers in general tend to be self-conscious and it takes a bit of a leap of faith or just not giving a sh-t to write something you know people are going to criticize.

Without risk faith is an impossibility.

All the scholastic scaffolding falls as a ruined edifice before a single word: faith.

Faith is believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.

Seek not to understand that thou mayest believe but believe that thou mayest understand.

Faith is, by its very definition, belief without proof.

Your faith is what you believe not what you know.

That's the thing about faith. If you don't have it you can't understand it. And if you do no explanation is necessary.

Faith doesn't wait until it understands in that case it wouldn't be faith.

You don't need faith to walk on the riverbank, you need faith to walk on water.

For the truly faithful no miracle is necessary. For those who doubt no miracle is sufficient.

My faith has wavered but has saved me.

To believe with certainty we must begin with doubting.